How to do ERP Data Migration from TCSion / TCS iON to ACTouch ERP Software
Few businesses want to migrate from TCS iON, due to Business specific reasons including Expensive ERP Software.
- TCS iON (also called TCSiON) is not able to help few large business with Production (Manufacturing), Planning, Materials Management, Procurement Management etc. Due to this reason many companies have stopped using TCS iON / TCSiON products after working for years. So how to migrate from TCSiON to ACTouch ERP?
- There are few ERP project failures. The reasons could be anything as there is no clearly defined responsibility of “Who is responsible for Customer Success?” in these engagements.
- Product is so complex with many controls and processes that many are struggling to manage it.
- Frequent requirements to enable new team members as the resources churn out is high.
- Few faced problem of cost escalation as the number of users increases and the work load increases that’s demands workflow, approvals etc.
- Struggling to get Customization support from the Software support Vendor as the cost of the development is huge.
- System Hopping Between Departments due to multiple Software as few customers moved into some cheap solutions.
- Few complained (from Indian market) about the multiple cost structures like License Costs, Implementation and Customization costs. Post that annual Maintenance and Support cost, which adds up more.
- If you are looking for a simple and easy solution that helps to manage the business, then these solutions doesn’t work due to its heavy nature.
ERP Implementation has many challenges and it requires to follow a discipline in the implementation approach. You have to manage multiple facets of the business departments, identify the stakeholders and others.
One of the major challenge that’s faced in ERP implementation (based on our experience) is preparation of Implementation Plan and activities.
Let us address this in one by one.
- Decide the objective of the Migration – Define what you want to achieve as part of migration from TCS iON to ACTouch.com? Some of the reasons could be as below.
- Multiple Business department integration that’s lacking in your old software.
- You want to implement new modules for your business like Manufacturing, Planning modules, Subcontracting, Material Management etc.
- Controlling the behaviour of the Products and its part details.
- Missing ability to customize.
- Better MIS Reports.
- Better visibility of process and approvals.
- Define a Workflow automation to avoid the decision making process?
- Find the process that takes more time to customer delivery
- Reduce the manual errors and clerical mistakes.
- Make sure customer is happy and on time delivery improves.
2. Who are the stakeholders for this project? These are those people who are impacted directly or indirectly, decides the fate of the project.
More than 50% of ERP projects get delayed or failed due to not addressing these stakeholders concerns.
- Management team and department heads.
- Production department and engineers
- Sales and Marketing departments
- IT department
- Purchase and procurement team
- Stores and Inventory controls
- Finance
- Sales people
- External entities like Distributors and Re-sellers.
Identify the above teams and work with them. Find the reasons why they should support your Migration from TCS iON to ACTouch.com
3. Define the project plans and milestones.
- Define the activities and dependencies. (For example before testing begins the data should have been migrated).
- It is also important to define the Milestones and what should be achieved by that time frame? For example
- Current System Study completion
- Data migration
- Customization of Changes of process etc.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Plan for Go live and decide on the Cut-off date.
- Live date and what departments are moved to new system.
- Who is responsible and when it’s expected to complete?
- Who owns the data migration
- What portion of the earlier ERP would be migrated?
- Is the new ERP implemented at One go or stage wise? If its stage-wise then what are the modules should go first and how the interdependence are addressed? In case of ACTouch.com, many modules are integrated and one activity has an impact across other modules. So it is an important decision process.
4. Post Go-live with ACTouch.com ERP software, how to do the hand holding of your teams and how their issues are addressed?
Please download the Project Plan Template that we use for ACTouch.com ERP Implementation. This document would be extended after our discussion with Project Team.
How to do Data migration from TCSiON / TCSiON to ACTouch.com?
ACTouch.com is completely integrated ERP software for medium to large Manufacturing companies and it has many modules that are tightly integrated. We follow a detailed approach for the data migration, so that we don’t miss any.Steps to migrate from TCS iON has been mentioned below.
- First define the list of master data that needs to be migrated. There are 2 sets of data. Some are mandatory and some are optional, but these data preparation could help you with a Proper ERP implementation and its reports.
Mandatory lists
- Vendor / Supplier master. Download the format here.
- Customer master. Download the format here.
- Product masters / Parts Master – It contains the list of Raw Materials, Semi Finished Goods, Finished Goods, Expenses Items etc. Download the format here.
Optional Master data lists
- Product Groups and Subgroups – You can define up to 3 levels of Sub groups for a Product Group.
- Location masters – If you are identifying the Products with specific work locations, then you can define them.
- Chart of Accounts – ACTouch.com would be defined with a standard Chart of Accounts and its financial categories. In case you want to define your own Chart of Accounts then you can do so.
- Supplier and Product Price lists
- Customer and Product price lists
- Transactional data migration. These are the ones that helps to continue with TCS iON transactions in ACTouch.com from cut-off date.
- Open Invoices – Those invoices where the material is sold, but yet to receive the money from customers.
- Open Bills – Open bills for which you have to do the payments.
- Opening Stocks – These are the opening stocks of the available inventory and we need the unit costs.
- Opening Account Balances – We take Trial Balance report from TCS iON and enter those data into a Journal Entry.
- Open Purchase Orders – download the format
- Open Sales Orders – download the format
- To simplify the process, we have defined the .CSV formats for you to capture the data and you can upload them into ACTouch.com.
- Simple to use and no expertise required.
- Verify the data in excel form.
- Download these data from TCS iON and upload into ACTouch.com
Based on our implementation process, the preparation of right Master and old transaction data takes time.
Migrating from TCS iON / TCSiON to ACTouch is very simple, easy and 1000’s of master data can be uploaded in 2 minutes.
How to Data migrate from other Softwares to ACTouch, a Manufacturing ERP Software?
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